Abstract
Michael Ondaatje writes fiction at the very center of global literary success and attention, yet does so with both a discontinuous, poetic style more generally admired by a smaller readership and a recurrent focus on marginalized characters and communities. His popularity as an internationally respected novelist follows his early work as a poet, work that influences his intensely imagistic novels with their centripetal, often polyphonic narration, metafictional translucency, and contrapuntal plots. Thematically, the novels attend to individual and systemic violence, the intersection of official and unofficial history, textuality, romance, and sexuality. His characters frequently migrate from one community (whether geographically or socially rooted) to another, re‐authoring themselves in new places while their author builds non‐linear, imbricated narratives.
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